In honor of the late Michael Kelly:
I believe in this President.
I believe President Bush correctly identified state-sponsored terrorism as the real threat to our nation and way of life. I believe he means to rid the world of this scourge against humanity. I believe he will succeed.
I believe we are winning the war against terror. I believe the worst of the worst — bin Laden's al Qaeda network and its offshoots — are everywhere on the run and every day running out of places to hide.
I believe that not only the Iraqi people, but the entire world, will reap the benefits of George W. Bush's and Tony Blair's determination and leadership and that the scourge of state-sponsored terrorism will soon be consigned to the trash bin of history.
I believe most of the world will look this gift horse in the mouth and repay America and her coalition partners with derision and ingratitude. I believe the stakes are too high to pay a moment's attention to the tantrums of sniveling snot-nose Euro-trash who think themselves superior to us even as they continue to repeat past follies and we keep saving their collective backsides from the fire.
I believe those liberal elites who sneered at the President's Axis of Evil speech display their own monumental arrogance bred from abysmal ignorance. I believe contemporary liberalism has been permanently corrupted by abortion and Clintonism and what remains is a conspiracy of knaves and dunces.
I believe Iraq, North Korea and Iran are part of an Axis of Evil and that the world will soon be better off with one less totalitarian regime to worry about.
I believe the liberation of Iraq is imminent. I believe the long-suffering Iraqi people will soon enjoy for the first time the four essential human freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear.
I believe the long-overdue reckoning of Saddam Hussein's regime will send a message to other rogue states that the writing is on the wall, that their days of harboring and financing terror are numbered.
I believe the sacrifice of the heroes of September 11th — the police and firefighters and emergency workers in the rubble of Ground Zero and the Pentagon, of Todd Beamer and the other passengers of Flight 11 and our magnificent troops in Afghanistan, in Iraq and in other parts of the world — will not be in vain.
I believe in Ronald Reagan's vision of America as a shining city on a hill and a beacon of hope to captive people everywhere. I believe what President Reagan said, that America represents the last best hope for freedom on earth. I believe what President Bush said, that freedom is not America's gift to the world, but the birthright of all humanity.
I believe with this President that the Author of all creation is not indifferent in the struggle between good against evil. I believe that an Angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.
I believe that we did not start this war, but we will surely end it.
I believe we will not tire, we will not falter and we will not fail.